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ROBERT D. HUME Bibliography (October 2018) ROBERT D. HUME Bibliography (October 2018) Born 25 July 1944 B.A. Haverford, 1966 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1969 Evan Pugh University Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Literature, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991-1998 Distinguished Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, 1990-1991 Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, 1977-1990 Associate Head, Department of English, 1979-1983 Associate Professor, Cornell University, 1974-1977 Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1969-1974 Guggenheim Fellow, 1983-84 NEH Grant ($120,000) for 1990-1993 BOOKS AND EDITED BOOKS The Publication of Plays in London, 1660-1800: Playwrights, Publishers, and the Market (collaboration with Judith Milhous). London: The British Library, 2015. Pp. xxvi + 483. 112 illustrations. Distributed in the USA by the University of Chicago Press. Oral version delivered in October 2011 as the Panizzi Lectures at The British Library. We address such issues as the value of money (buying power); the cost of living, income levels, and book prices; earning a living by the pen (with analysis of the Upcott Collection of contracts); collected editions, series, and single play publication; the use of illustrations; and the impact of changes in copyright law. Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings Associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham. Edited by Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Pp. lxii+770; xiii+587. This edition includes The Rehearsal (1671), elaborately annotated; Buckingham’s adaptations of The Chances and The Restauration [Philaster]; The Country Gentleman (with Sir Robert Howard); the collaborative play in French, Sir Politick-Would-be (with Saint- Evremond and d’Aubigny); the fragmentary Theodorick; Buckingham’s poems (based on a new study of the canon); nine miscellaneous short works; an extensive Commonplace Book; and seven Appendixes containing such things as biographical documents, poems about Robert D. Hume / 2 Buckingham, discussion of False Attributions, and a complete translation of Sir Politick. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London. Volume II: The Pantheon Opera and its Aftermath, 1790- 1795 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000). Pp xxvii + 883. Collaboration with Judith Milhous and Gabriella Dideriksen. Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pp. xiv + 235. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London. Volume I: The King’s Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). Pp. xv + 698. Collaboration with Curtis Price and Judith Milhous. A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 1660-1737 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991). 2 vols. Pp. xli + 1080. Collaboration with Judith Milhous. Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). Pp. xix + 283. Roscius Anglicanus by John Downes (1708), edited in collaboration with Judith Milhous. (London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1987). Pp. xxviii + 164. Producible Interpretation: Eight English Plays, 1675-1707 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985). Pp. xv + 336. Collaboration with Judith Milhous. The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama 1660-1800 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983). Pp. xvi + 382. [Three new essays plus revisions of seven articles published 1972-1981.] Vice Chamberlain Coke’s Theatrical Papers, 1706-1715, edited in collaboration with Judith Milhous. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982). Pp. xlii + 274. [Letters, petitions, bills, box-office reports, orchestra rosters, etc., mostly having to do with the introduction of Italian opera into England at the Haymarket theatre, Vanbrugh’s financial problems, and management quarrels at Drury Lane. The collection was dispersed at auction in 1876.] The London Theatre World, 1660-1800 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980). Pp. xix + 394. [Festschrift for A. H. Scouten. New essays by Judith Milhous, Edward A. Langhans, Colin Visser, Leo Hughes, Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Geo. Winchester Stone, Jr., Curtis A. Price, H. W. Pedicord, John Loftis, Calhoun Winton, Shirley Strum Kenny, and Joseph Donohue.] The Frolicks: or The Lawyer Cheated (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977). Pp. 154. [The “lost” 1671 comedy by Elizabeth Polwhele, edited from Cornell University Library MS Bd. Rare P P77 in collaboration with Judith Milhous.] “The Country Gentleman”: A “Lost” Play and its Background (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Dent Everyman University Library, 1976). Pp. xi + 163. Hardbound and paperbound. [The “lost” 1669 comedy by Sir Robert Howard and George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, edited from Folger MS V.b. 228 in collaboration with Arthur H. Scouten. Cf. TLS notice of the discovery, listed below.] Robert D. Hume / 3 The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976). Pp. xix + 525. Paperback edition, 1990. Dryden’s Criticism (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1970). Pp. xvii + 236. MONOGRAPHS “Playwrights’ Remuneration in Eighteenth-Century London,” special issue of Harvard Library Bulletin, n.s. 10 (1999), 3-90 [actually published in August 2001]. Collaboration with Judith Milhous. The Impresario’s Ten Commandments: Continental Recruitment for the Italian Opera in London, 1763-64, RMA Monograph Series, 6 (London: Royal Musical Association, 1992). Pp. viii + 94. Collaboration with Curtis Price and Judith Milhous. WEB PUBLICATION The London Stage, 1660-1800. A New Version of the First Eleven Seasons of Part 2 covering 1700-01 through 1710-11. Compiled and Edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume. Pp. xix + 739. As of January 1996 bound copies of the printout were made available in The Folger Library, The Harvard Theatre Collection, The British Library, and The Bodleian Library. Since 2001 PDF copies of the eleven seasons plus 88 pages of the “Index of Plays and Playwrights” and the “General Index” have been available for downloading from my website: http://personal.psu.edu/hb1/London%20Stage%202001/. Also available as part of the apparatus on the Adam Matthew website for Eighteenth-Century Drama: Censorship, Society, and the Stage, ARTICLES “The London Stage, 1660-1800: A Short History, Retrospective Anatomy, and Projected Future,” just completed (108 page typescript). “‘What Is Your Evidence?’: R. S. Crane as Scholar, Critic, and Theorist of Methodology,” Modern Philology, 115.4 (2018), 432-473. “Re-evaluating Colley Cibber—and Some Problems in the Documentation of Performance, 1690-1800,” review-article of Elaine McGirr, Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Life (15 page typescript). “Marvell and the Restoration Wits,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell, ed. Martin Dzelzainis and Edward Holberton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 21-page typescript. Collaboration with Ashley Marshall. “The Aims and Genre of Colley Cibber’s Apology (1740),” Studies in Philology, 114.3 (2017), 662-695. “The Problematics of ‘Evidence’ in Historical Scholarship and Criticism,” Eighteenth-Century Life, 41.3 (2017), 20-56. “Authorship, Publication, and Reception: 1660-1750,” a chapter on print culture context in Prose Robert D. Hume / 4 Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750, ed. Thomas Keymer, Vol. 1 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017), chap. 2, pages 26-45. “Axiologies: Past and Present Concepts of Literary Value,” Modern Language Quarterly, 78.2 (2017), 139-172. “Believers Versus Skeptics: An Assessment of the Cardenio/Double Falsehood Problem,” in Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Deborah C. Payne (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), chapter 2 (pages 7-56). “Theatre Performance Records in London, 1660-1705,” The Review of English Studies, n.s. 67, no. 280 (2016), 468-495. “What the Larpent Collection Contains—and What It Does Not Contain.” Published as part of the apparatus for the Adam Matthew digitization of the entire Larpent Collection of play manuscripts in the Huntington Library and other materials under the title Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society, and the Stage (6000 words). “Money and Rank,” in The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen’s Emma, ed. Peter Sabor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), chap. 4, pages 52-67. “A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Restoration Comedy,” review article of Manuel J. Gómez-Lara, María José Mora, Paula de Pando Mena, Rafael Portillo, Juan A. Prieto-Pablos, and Rafael Vélez Núñez, eds. Restoration Comedy, 1660-1670: A Catalogue (2014), in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, 29.2 (October 2015), 6-18. “Ronald Paulson’s Heterodox View of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art,” in Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson, edited by Ashley Marshall (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2015), pp. 197-239. “Garrick in Dublin in 1745-46,” Philological Quarterly, 93.4 (2014), 507-540. (Actually appeared in September 2015.) “The Value of Money in Eighteenth-Century England: Incomes, Prices, Buying Power—and Some Problems in Cultural Economics,” Huntington Library Quarterly, 77.4 (2014), 373-416. “Feniza or The Ingeniouse Mayde: A ‘Lost’ Carolean Comedy Found—and a Source
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